Tbers, My apologies for missing the last meeting. I thought many of you would find the MIT OpenCourseWare project interesting. Here is a ditty from The Chronicle's web site recently forwarded to me. The OpenCourseWare project basically made the content of ALL of MIT's courses available on the web for free. > > > March 12, 2007MIT's OpenCourseWare Project Nears Completion > When the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced the > formation of its OpenCourseWare project (The Chronicle, April 20, > 2001), the plan struck some observers as far-fetched: Putting > online the instructional material for nearly 2,000 college courses > isn’t exactly a simple task. > > Nearly six years later, though, MIT has lived up to its lofty > aspirations. Campus officials have told the Associated Press that > the university will have digitized and posted material for all of > its courses by the end of the year. (Currently, the institution has > posted resources from more than 1,400 classes.) When they started > the project, MIT administrators predicted that they would need > about 10 years to complete it, so this could be the rare > institutional endeavor that meets its goal well ahead of schedule. > > Of course, the OpenCourseWare program may never really be finished > in the traditional sense: New courses will pop up, syllabi will > change, and new distribution methods will render others obsolete. > But the announcement still marks a milestone, especially for other > institutions — including the University of Notre Dame, the > University of California at Irvine, and Utah State University — > that have followed MIT’s lead and started making their own course > material available free online. —Brock Read > > > > Jim Greenberg